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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

FileZilla is a free, cross-platform and full-featured FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) solution for the Linux and Open Source ecosystems. It is also
compatible with the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Nvidia driver for Linux has reached the 370 series by releasing the 370.23 beta driver. TITAN X (Pascal) and GeForce GTX 1000 series are officially supported. Over- and under-clock GPUs feature added for GTX 1000 series and later.
Nvidia 370.23 also brings the “PixelShiftMode” MetaMode option, enabling support for 4K and 8K pixel shift displays.

Nvidia Linux Display Driver 370.23 Beta Release Highlights

Added support for the following GPUs:

TITAN X (Pascal)

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Added the ability to over- and under-clock certain GeForce GPUs in the GeForce GTX 1000 series and later. For GPUs that allow it, an offset can be applied to clock values in some clock domains of all performance levels. This clock manipulation is done at the user's own risk. See the README documentation of the "CoolBits" X configuration option for more details.

Fixed a bug that prevented Vulkan applications from presenting from multiple queues to the same X11 swapchain.

Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Rhythmbox is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.

Rhythmbox 3.4 Changelog :

New web remote control plugin

Grilo plugin now uses Grilo 0.3

Soundcloud plugin fetches more search results and allows pausing

No longer uses webkit (partly due to OpenBSD W^X enforcement)

Slightly better handling of keyboard shortcuts for playback

Core and some plugin data files compiled into binaries using GResources

DVDStyler 3.0 Authoring Tool released is a cross-platform free DVD
authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It
allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played
practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of
individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is
completely free.

Features

create and burn DVD video with interactive menus

design your own DVD menu or select one from the list of ready to use menu templates

create photo slideshow

add multiple subtitle and audio tracks

support of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formats

support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats

Friday, August 26, 2016

Htop is an interactive real time process monitoring application for Linux/Unix like systems and also a handy alternative to top command, which is default process monitoring tool that comes with pre-installed on all Linux operating systems

Since version 2.0, htop is now cross-platform! Check out the video and slides of my presentation at FOSDEM 2016 about how this came to be. This release includes code supporting Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X.

There are also, of course, some new features:

If you're using NCurses 6, htop will also support your mouse wheel for scrolling.

Moving meters and columns around in the setup screen is a lot more comfortable now.

You can now press "e" to see the set of environment variables for a process.

The "graph" mode for meters was revamped, inspired by James Hall's vtop.

PyCharm is an IDE for Python development and has been considered as one of the best Python IDE by the experts. The IDE comes in professional and community edition. The community edition is free of cost, but professional edition has more features.

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

qBittorrent is a free, open-source and reliable P2P BitTorrent client, available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows. It aims to provide a free software alternative to uTorrent.

qBittorrent 3.3.6 changelog :

qBittorrent v3.3.6 was released. Minor bugfixes of v3.3.5. It also fixes crashes on launch for some Windows setups. It is a libtorrent problem. On Windows it uses libtorrent 1.0.9+git f716aef5 with commit 45cff5837f7b4af reverted as this one is causing the crashes. Investigation is ongoing. Mac OS X builds are ready too. Ubuntu PPA will follow.

BUGFIX: Do not create save folder in advanc

BUGFIX: Fix upper-bound limit of command line for "Run External Program" in Windows

BUGFIX: Invoke system's cmd.exe directly.

BUGFIX: Workaround space issues in file path for running external program on Windows.

BUGFIX: Fix icons are missing when using RTL languages in Options dialog.

Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It is primarily aimed at the GNU/Linux platform but also works on BSD and MacOS.
Non-linear video editing is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors, hence it requires a bit more organization before starting.

Kdenlive 15.12.3 Features :

Multi-track video editing : Kdenlive allows you to use and arrange several audio and video tracks, each one can be locked or muted to your convenience.

Use any audio / video format : Being based on the powerful FFmpeg libraries, Kdenlive can use almost any audio and video formats directly without the need to convert or re-encode your clips.

Configurable interface and shortcuts : You can arrange and save your custom interface layouts to fit your workflow. Keyboard shortcuts can also be configured to match your preferences.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.2, again within three months of the previous release. This being the case 0.4.2 presents a fairly incremental update from 0.4.1

However, the most interesting feature of the ReactOS 0.4.2 release is the ability for users to mount and read (write support is not available at the time) data from various Unix and Linux filesystems.

Beyond the usual updates to external dependencies such as Wine and UniATA, much work has gone into refining the experience of using ReactOS, especially with respect to the graphical shell and the file explorer. Perhaps the most user visible change however is the ability now to mount and read from several Unix filesystems, namely ext family, ReiserFS, and UFS. Native built-in support for these filesystems should make for considerably easier interoperability than the current out-of-box experience provided by Windows, and there is more to come in the future.

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It
is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces,
security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more.
Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

Linux Kernel 4.7.2 Hightlights

phy: rcar-gen3-usb2: fix mutex_lock calling in interrupt

Fix it so READ bios are properly errored with -EIO; doing so early in flakey_map() as long as there isn't a match for the corrupt_bio_byte feature.

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It
is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces,
security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more.
Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

The diffstat for rc2 looks unusual, in that only about 1/6th is drivers (normally drivers account for about half the bulk of the updates). Instead, it's dominated by arch updates, and fs/ and mm/. But that's most likely just because the fixes to the bigger driver areas haven't started trickling in yet - rc2 tends to be a quiet period after the craziness that is the merge window.

phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.

phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 changelog phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 release includes many security fixes of various levels of severity. We recommend all users upgrade to this release immediately. For full information on the vulnerabilities fixed and mitigation factors for users who are unable to upgrade, refer to the ChangeLog file included with this release and the security announcements at https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/.

Aside from the security fixes, bugs have been fixed in version 4.6.4 affecting:

Friday, August 19, 2016

Shotwell 0.23.5 is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. Shotwell automatically groups photos and videos by date, and supports tagging. Its image editing features allow users to straighten, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. It also features an auto "enhance" option that will attempt to guess appropriate levels for the image.

Monday, August 15, 2016

Audacious 3.8 beta had been released, and its now possible to run multiple instances of Audacious. The new version has better support for Windows, with a new installer based. Audio output on Windows now uses the native waveOut API, allowing higher bit depths, lower latency, and better integration with the system volume control.

Audacious 3.8 beta changelog

New audtool commands added:

Enable/disable stream recording

Enable/disable any plugin: effects, visualizations, etc

Cuesheet support is more seamless, with the following fixes:

More robust logic to prevent adding duplicate entries

Display artist correctly for cuesheets with only a single PERFORMER line

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

Linux kernel 4.8 RC1 release, we can tell you that over 20% of the patch consists documentation updates, 60% comes in the form of updated drivers, this time for things like GPU, sound, media (including a driver for the touchscreen controller found on the Microsoft Surface 3 tablet computer), and networking, and 15% represents architecture updates, in particular for ARM, PowerPC (PPC), x86, MIPS, and s390.

Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports.

The latest version available is QuodLibet 3.6.2, which has been recently released, bringing a huge list of changes:

KiCad is an open source software suite for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The programs handle Schematic Capture, and PCB Layout with Gerber output. The suite runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and is licensed under GNU GPL v3.

This release contains a new snapshot of the documentation and libraries. It also has the latest changes from the kicad-i18n repo, which now contains complete GUI translations for the following languages: de, fr, it, ja, ru, pl, zh_CN and es.

Monday, August 8, 2016

Fotoxx is a free Linux program for editing photos or other images and managing a large collection. Image directories (folders) can be viewed as a scrolling gallery of thumbnail images. Navigating directories and subdirectories is simple and fast. Click on a thumbnail for a full window view of the image. The image can be zoomed, panned and scrolled using the mouse. Gallery thumbnails can vary from small to huge. Popup windows can be used to view multiple images at any scale. Galleries are also used to display image search results and albums.

Fotoxx 16.08 changelog Albums:

Remove multiple images by clicking thumbnails.

Drag thumbnails from a file manager or gallery to an album and position.

Slide Show:

The last image remains displayed until Escape is pressed

Transition preferences: fix large dialog that can overflow a small monitor.

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a
compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several
POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.
Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or
emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly,
eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and
allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your
desktop.

While the latest version available is Wine 1.8.x, you can also install
and test Wine 1.9.16(Dev), which is the under-development branch of Wine
and brings the below changes:

Myst V installer will not run.

Grafit text labels not displayed properly

Devil May Cry 3: Black screen when playing game, but special effects are seen

Friday, August 5, 2016

Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop. It helps developers by providing all you can expect from a general purpose text editor, such as syntax highlighting for more than 100 different languages, code folding, color schemes, file monitoring, multiple selection and much more.

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. So compiling it on Linux is very hard. Notepadqq is a free and open source alternative to Notepad++.

Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software that can be run on various software and hardware platforms with little or no change in the underlying codebase, while still being a native application with the capabilities and speed thereof.

New Features in Qt 5.7.0

Qt 3D Module

Added support for Compute Shaders on supported hardware.

Added support for loading multi-image DDS and KTX textures including cubemaps, mip chains, and array textures.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.

Visual Studio Code 1.4 Highlights

Workbench: Editor actions such as Open Preview and Switch to Changes View are back on the title bar. IME and Copy/Paste support in the Integrated Terminal.

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to
the core a tool you can customize to do anything but also use
productively without ever touching a config file.

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS
X, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and
embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application
built using web technologies. Most of the extending packages have free
software licenses and are community-built and maintained. Atom is based
on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell), a framework that enables
cross-platform desktop applications using Chromium and Node.js. It is
written in CoffeeScript and Less. It can also be used as an IDE. Atom
was released from beta, as version 1.0, on June 25, 2015. Its developers
call it a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century".

Thursday, August 4, 2016

LibreOffice 5.2.0 is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).

LibreOffice 5.2.0 Changelog :

Writer

New drawing tools were added (that were previously available only in Draw), including Filled Curve/Polygon/Freeform Line, as well as Polygon (45°).

Firefox multi process support, which separate web content and Firefox UI process, was finally added in version 48 which was released on August 2, 2016. This is deemed to bring better responsiveness, stability, and security.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.

Blender 2.7 changelog

Cycles: Better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density.

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

The latest version available is OpenShot 2.0.7 (Beta 4), which comes with the below changes:

support for image sequences;

added a new file properties dialog which displays all known audio/video details about a file;

RedNotebook is a journal app, with calendar support. Among others, it allows the users to add tags, use bold and italic characters, has support for images, spell check features, automatic saving and backup functions, and many others.

The latest version available is RedNotebook 1.13, which has been released recently, coming with changes.

When selecting a journal directory, show all journal directories by default (thanks Paul Jackson).

Allow ampersands in e-mail addresses (lp:1570476, thanks pdofak).

python-gtkspell has been renamed to python-gtkspellcheck. Update docs and debian/control accordingly.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Webmin 1.801 is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. See the standard modules page for a list of all the functions built into Webmin.

Webmin 1.801 changelog

Fixed a security bug in the new Authentic theme.

Added a recent logins section to the System Information page.

When updating multiple packages, they are done in a single YUM or APT operation if possible.

Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text, video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages. Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Skype is available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, as well as Android, Blackberry, and both Apple and Windows smartphones and tablets.

Highlights of Skype 1.3 Alpha Changelog

Instead of being hidden, the menu items are now disabled when you’re not signed in.

Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics
accessible as a creative material for anyone. We offer a software tool, a
community website and services in the spirit of Processing and Arduino,
fostering a creative ecosystem that allows users to document their
prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom,
and layout and manufacture professional pcbs.

New fritzing release 0.9.3b

Continuously updated parts library

The fritzing parts library is now stored online at github and is automatically checked
for updates on every launch. This means you will now get new parts (or
fixes) in the moment when they are created. No need to wait for the next
Fritzing release to get new parts anymore!
And we are actually using git itself inside of fritzing to do these
updates, so this opens up many other use cases in the future, like for
example direct user contributions.

Monday, August 1, 2016

Qmmp 1.1.2 is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It has support for popular multimedia file formats, including MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, WMA, Midi.